Resources

The following links represent a range of materials that may be beneficial to those wanting to understand more fully the connection between professional development, teacher education and assessment as it relates to 21st century literacies.

Professional Development

• Principles of Effective Professional Development for
  Mathematics and Science Education: A Synthesis of Standards 

• Learning to Teach:  Sharing the Wisdom of Practice 

• Thompkins, Daniel. “Ambassadors with Portfolios: Electronic Portfolios and the Improvement of Teaching.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 2001.91-105.

• NCTE's Principles of Professional Development

Teacher Education

• Ten Promising Trends (and Three Big Worries)
  NSTA has received permission from ASCD to use this article in support of the
  21st Century Skills Impact Conference, Teacher Education.

• Statistical Literacy

• Perspectives on Learning to Teach:  Sharing the Wisdom of Practice

• EdSchool's article on Educating School Teachers

• CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing  Writing in Digital Environments

• Lynch, Linda. and Pupung Purnawarman. “Electronic Portfolio Assessments In U.S. Educational and Instructional Technology Programs: Are They Supporting Teacher Education?” TechTrends 48 (2004): 50-6. 

• CEE's Beliefs about Technology and the Preparation of English Teachers

• Mullen, Laurie, William Bauer, and W. Webster Newbold. “Developing a University-Wide Electronic Portfolio System for Teacher Education.” Kairos 6.2 (2001). 28 Dec. 2005.

• Barkley, Elizabeth . “From Bach to Tupac: Using an Electronic Course Portfolio to Analyze a Curricular Transformation.” Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Ed. Barbara Cambridge, Susan Kahn, Daniel Thompkins, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. Washington, DC : American Association of Higher Education, 2001. 117-123.

Assessment

• Why Standards-based Assessment Doesn't Measure Up

• CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing  Writing in Digital Environments

• NAEP Geography Assessment

• Carleton College Sophomore Writing Portfolios Program

• Carleton College Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QUIRK) Initiative

• “Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios.” 1996. 27 Jan. 2006

• NCTE Classroom-based Assessment

• “Demonstrating and Assessing Student Learning with E-Portfolios.” Educause Learning Initiative. 2005. 28 Jan. 2006

Other Links of Interest

• Original P21 Framework for 21st Century Skills

• Draft Revision of P21 Framework for 21st Century Skills

• ICT Literacy Maps by subject area

• Verizon Literacy Campus

• NCGE Standards

• NCSS Standards

• NCSS Background Statement

• NCSS Technology Position Statement and Guidelines

• NCSS Position Statement on Creating Effective Citizens

• NCSS Position Statement on Preparing Citizens for a Global Community

• Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

• NSTA Standards

• NCTM Standards

• NCTM Strategic Plan

• NCTE/IRA Standards

• New York Teacher Center (NY Institute of Technology)

• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Framework (Refreshed)

• Center for Media Literacy

• Media that Matters Film Festival

• MediaRights.org

• Tamalpais High School (Academy of Integrated Humanities and New Media-AIM) and Sample Emmy Award winning AIM film projects

• The Carleton Interdisciplinary Science and Math Initiative

• 21st Century Learning Environments

• NCTE Pathways:  Providing Direction for Student Success Through Teacher Learning

• Reading and Writing on the Web

• Literacy Learning:  What Research Tells Us

• NCTE's Strategic Governance Motion on Multimodal Literacies and Technology

• NCTE Multimodal Teacher Resources
  

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